flechette
noun
[ fleɪˈʃɛt ]
• a type of ammunition resembling a needle, used in bombs, shells, and guns.
• "doctors say they have pulled flechettes from dead and wounded fighters"
Origin:
late 19th century (in reference to an outdoor game played with darts; used in the First World War to denote a pointed steel projectile resembling a dart, dropped from an aircraft): from French fléchette, diminutive of flèche ‘arrow’.
